{"id":246414,"date":"2026-10-05T16:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T14:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/sudan-health-crisis-deepens-for-1700-sudanese-migrants-detained-in-qanfuda-prison-libya\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T16:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T14:30:29","slug":"sudan-health-crisis-deepens-for-1700-sudanese-migrants-detained-in-qanfuda-prison-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/sudan-health-crisis-deepens-for-1700-sudanese-migrants-detained-in-qanfuda-prison-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Health Crisis Deepens for 1,700 Sudanese Migrants Detained in Qanfuda Prison, Libya."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The health of dozens of detained Sudanese nationals is deteriorating inside Qanfuda Prison in Benghazi, Libya, according to interviews conducted with victims&#8217; families and eyewitnesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"4\"><strong>A Mass Arrest Campaign<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Libyan authorities in the east, based in Benghazi, carried out an arrest campaign targeting Sudanese and African migrants between May and August 2026, citing illegal migration. The campaign reportedly detained approximately 1,700 individuals, including people with chronic diseases, in a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610050052.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The health of dozens of detained Sudanese nationals is deteriorating inside Qanfuda Prison in Benghazi, Libya, according to interviews conducted with victims&#8217; families and eyewitnesses. A Mass Arrest Campaign Libyan authorities in the east, based in Benghazi, carried out an arrest campaign targeting Sudanese and African migrants between May and August 2026, citing illegal migration. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":246415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00240383:1386cafe7e74b579e20c12ce241e96dd:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,3723,9626,3707,5731,4711,892,6928,257,5115,55584,254,4708,7296],"class_list":["post-246414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crisis","tag-deepens","tag-detained","tag-health","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-migrants","tag-news","tag-prison","tag-qanfuda","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudanese"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00240383:1386cafe7e74b579e20c12ce241e96dd:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}